technician

Apprentice -> Technician -> Engineer Or alternatively you can like myself start at the Technician level.

It's cheap to get a license, under $50 to test and get your technician's license in the USA.

Just as you mentioned, most of them are unused because they don't have a IT technician/lab instructor.

This blog post is interesting and it's good to see some numbers (one technician per 25,000 servers).

My downstairs neighbor had a friend stop by who was an actual line technician for the telephony part of SBC.

Personal story that relates to this: A few years back, my wife was finishing up classes to become a cardiovascular technician.

What happened is that it became cheaper to replace a board than to pay a skilled technician to debug components on a board.

The one technician for 25,000 servers part stands out the most to me.

I'm not a Microsoft help-desk staffer, a GMail support center, or an Acer repair technician.

Some mainframes would even do their own fault reporting, all you'd have to do is say hi to the technician and let him into the building.

I don't know what became of him after that but his plan was to work as an electronics technician in Silicon Valley.

--- Fabrication Technician The Job * Generous living wage factory job with overtime, benefits, and vacation.

There are certain job levels (secretary, technician, engineer, manager, etc.), but inside of these levels the salary is only determined by "years of experience" (which is mostly how long you have been in the company).

When it stops working, you toss it out and get a new one." He makes some other points too from a deep technician perspective citing how companies began to view and deal with complexity and liability of having their products be user servicable...

- some with a HAM ("technician/radio amateur" type license) fly 1.3ghz on the prototype fatshark rx/tx (these will be available soon, but dont play well with 2.4ghz tx due to harmonics) - fatshark dominators or similar goggles, its hard to race on screen albeit some do that too..